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2001	Name:	Dr. Richard C. M. Janko
	Institution:	University of Michigan
	Year Elected:	2009
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	402b
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1955

	Richard Janko is the current Else Collegiate Professor of Classical Studies and former Chair of the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan, having previously taught at Columbia University and University College, London. He has added new insights and dimensions to our understanding of structure and chronology of archaic Greek literature though his pioneering work in applying computer techniques and through his superb and wide-ranging knowledge of Greek language and culture. He is the author of many works, including: Homer, Hesiod and the Hymns: Diachronic Development in Epic Diction, 1982; Aristotle on Comedy: Towards a Reconstruction of Poetics II, 1984; Aristotle: Poetics, 1987; The Iliad, A Commentary, books 13-16, 1992; Philodemus: The Aesthetic Works, Volume I: On Poems, 2000. Janko was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award from the UCLA Students' Union in 1992, the Premio Theodor Mommsen in 2002, and the Goodwin Award from the American Philological Association in 2002 and he is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2006) and of the American Philological Association.

2002	Name:	Dr. Morris Janowitz
	Institution:	University of Chicago
	Year Elected:	1983
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	302. Economics
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1919
	Death Date:	11/[7]/88

2003	Name:	Dr. Daniel H. Janzen
	Institution:	University of Pennsylvania; Area de Conservación Gaunacaste, Costa Rica
	Year Elected:	2007
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	203. Evolution & Ecology, Systematics, Population Genetics, Paleontology, and Physical Anthropology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1939

	Daniel Janzen is DiMaura Professor of Conservation Biology at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and Technical Advisor to the Area de Conservación Gaunacaste in northwestern Costa Rica. While initially focused on tropical animal-plant relationships, from the early 1980's to the present, Janzen has focused on an inventory of tropical caterpillars, their parasites, and their microbial biodiversity, and on the conservation of tropical biodiversity through its non-damaging development (see ). His 428 publications encapsulate much of this information and its associated relevance for tropical science administration and conservation biology. He and his biologist wife, Winnie Hallwachs, are among the primary architects of the Area de Conservación Gaunacaste (ACG) in northwestern Costa Rica (), which was decreed a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999. Janzen received the first Crafoord Prize in biology offered xby the Swedish Royal Academy of Science (1984), the Kyoto Prize in Basic Biology (1997), and the John Scott Award of the City of Philadelphia for activities good for humankind (2003). A member of the US National Academy of Sciences (1992) and the Costa Rican National Academy of Sciences (2002), his activities have had a positive influence on society's awareness of the relevance and potential of conservation of tropical wildland biodiversity for global understanding, national sustainable development, and individual quality of life, both inside and outside the tropics. His current focus is caterpillar natural history, the combination of conservation and biodiversity development, finding the funds to endow the entire national park system of Costa Rica, and facilitating global bioliteracy through the emergence of the ability of all people to be able to identify any organism anywhere anytime through DNA barcoding.

2004	Name:	Samuel F. Jarvis
	Year Elected:	1820
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	3/26/1851

2005	Name:	Edward Jarvis
	Year Elected:	1863
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1803
	Death Date:	10/31/1884

2006	Name:	Dr. Sheila Sen Jasanoff
	Institution:	Harvard University
	Year Elected:	2021
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	304. Jurisprudence and Political Science
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1944

	SHEILA JASANOFF is Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Previously, she was founding chair of Cornell University’s Department of Science and Technology Studies. At Harvard, she founded and directs the Program on Science, Technology and Society; she also founded and coordinates the Science and Democracy Network. Jasanoff’s research centers on the interactions of law, science, and politics in democratic societies. She has written more than 130 articles and book chapters and authored or edited more than 15 books, including The Fifth Branch, Science at the Bar, and Designs on Nature. An edited volume, Dreamscapes of Modernity, was published in 2015. Her most recent books, The Ethics of Invention and Can Science Make Sense of Life?, appeared in 2016 and 2019, respectively. Her work has been translated into multiple languages. Jasanoff has held distinguished professorships in the US, Europe, Australia, and Japan. She was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and Karl W. Deutsch Guest Professor at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin. Her awards include a Guggenheim fellowship, the 2018 A. O. Hirschman prize of the Social Science Research Council, the Reimar-Lüst Prize of the Humboldt Foundation, the Austrian Government’s Ehrenkreuz, and the Bernal award of the Society for Social Studies of Science. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations, and a foreign member of the British Academy and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. She holds an A.B. in Mathematics from Harvard College, a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Harvard University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, as well as honorary doctorates from the Universities of Twente and Liège.

2007	Name:	Dr. Maria Jasin
	Institution:	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
	Year Elected:	2022
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	202. Cellular and Developmental Biology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1956

	Maria Jasin is a Professor and molecular biologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She earned her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984. Other experience includes serving as a professor at the Weill Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences. Jasin is a giant in the field of gene editing for genome modification and how spontaneous "gene editing" is causally linked to breast cancers. She received the 2019 Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine "for her work showing that localized double-strand breaks in DNA stimulate recombination in mammalian cells. This seminal work was essential for and led directly to the tools enabling editing at specific sites in mammalian genomes." She discovered double-strand DNA break repair proceeded both by non-homologous end-joining repair (mutagenesis) and, astonishingly, homology-directed repair (HDR) (precise gene correction). Thus, she established that an endonuclease-generated double strand break in DNA is an efficient approach for gene editing, setting the paradigm that specified genomic DNA damage enables genome modification. She also found that the breast cancer suppressors BRCA1 and BRCA2 are crucial for HDR, and established HDR as a tumor suppression mechanism, discoveries which have transformed therapeutic approaches. She is the recipient of the Basser Global Prize for BRCA Research, from the University of Pennsylvania, and the Shaw Prize in Life Science and Medicine. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Jasin was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2022.

2008	Name:	Morris Jastrow
	Year Elected:	1879
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	6/22/1921

2009	Name:	John Jay
	Year Elected:	1780
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	12/12/1745
	Death Date:	5/17/1829

	John Jay (12 December 1745–17 May 1829) was a lawyer, politician, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, elected in 1780. Born in New York to affluent parents, John Jay was tutored privately before earning a B.A. at King’s College in 1764. He studied law in a local office before opening his own practice in 1768. Given his affluence and connections, he wanted little to do with radical revolutionary politics, however he opposed absolute British control of America. In 1774 he served in the First Continental Congress and New York’s Committee of Correspondence. He continued into the Second Continental Congress, and joined New York’s revolutionary convention, writing part of the constitution adopted by New York state in 1777. Jay was chief justice of New York before becoming the President of the Continental Congress, before it elected him minister to Madrid. The Spanish were dismissive of American independence, yet Jay was able to negotiate a loan. Upon the imminent defeat of the British in 1782, he joined Benjamin Franklin and John Adams in negotiating a peace treaty in Paris. Returning to Congress two years later, he found he had been elected Secretary for Foreign Affairs. He utilized his negotiation skills to prevent America’s newfound independence from worsening diplomatic ties. At this time, he also began taking up the federalist cause: he contributed to The Federalist (1787) alongside Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, and he strongly advocated for the cause at New York’s ratifying convention the following year. In 1789, President George Washington appointed Jay as First Chief Justice. Jay advised the president, presided over high-profile trials, drafted President Washington’s proclamation of American neutrality regarding the current war between Britain and France in 1793, and went to London to negotiate a treaty with the British. Despite substantive popular disdain for the so-called Jay Treaty (1794), he won New York’s gubernatorial election before he had even returned (1795). Notably, Jay was a strong opponent to slavery: he freed any enslaved people whom he inherited, he helped found the New York Manumission Society, and signed into law a bill that called for gradual emancipation in New York. He left public life not long after, spent decades in peaceful retirement, then died from a ‘palsy’. (DNB)

2010	Name:	Dr. Martin Jay
	Institution:	University of California, Berkeley
	Year Elected:	2019
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	303. History Since 1715
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1944

	Martin Jay is currently Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1971 before beginning his career at Berkeley. Martin Jay is his generation’s most respected and influential scholar of European intellectual history. His fifteen books are read not only by historians, but by artists, museum curators, literary scholars, and philosophers. Jay combines a deep understanding of theoretical questions – about vision, truth, totality, and experience – with an extraordinary ability to interpret in accessible language the answers to these questions articulated by French and German thinkers, whose prose many readers find obscure. Jay’s scholarship endures: a book of more than forty years ago, now translated into fourteen languages, remains the standard work on the Frankfurt School. He has trained more than thirty-five doctoral students, who now hold faculty appointments in many of the leading universities in the United States and Europe. He has welcomed scores of post-doctoral fellows to Berkeley. He regularly delivers invited lectures on every continent. His awards include the Herbert Baxter Adams Award of the American Historical Association in 1973 and the Scientific Prize for Distinction in Art History, the Cultural Sciences or the Human Sciences of the Aby-Warburg Foundation, Hamburg, in 2003. He is a member of the American Academy of Literary Studies (1986) and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (1996). He is the author of: The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923-50, 1973; Marxism and Totality: The Adventures of a Concept from Lukács to Habermas, 1984; Adorno, 1984; Permanent Exiles: Essays on the Intellectual Migration from Germany to America, 1985; Fin-de-Siècle Socialism and Other Essays, 1988; Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought, 1993; Force Fields: Between Intellectual History and Cultural Critique, 1993; Cultural Semantics: Keywords of Our Time, 1998; Refractions of Violence, 2003; Songs of Experience: Modern European and American Variations on a Universal Theme, 2004; The Virtues of Mendacity: On Lying in Politics, 2010; Reason After its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory, 2016. Martin Jay was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.

2011	Name:	Horace Jayne
	Year Elected:	1885
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1859
	Death Date:	7/8/1913

2012	Name:	Henry LaBarre Jayne
	Year Elected:	1898
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	5/10/1920

2013	Name:	Horace H.F. Jayne
	Year Elected:	1934
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1898
	Death Date:	8/1/1975

2014	Name:	William W. Jefferis
	Year Elected:	1882
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Death Date:	2/23/1906

2015	Name:	Thomas Jefferson
	Year Elected:	1780
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1743
	Death Date:	7/4/1826

2016	Name:	Dr. Edward G. Jefferson
	Institution:	Du Pont
	Year Elected:	1985
	Class:	5. The Arts, Professions, and Leaders in Public & Private Affairs
	Subdivision:	503. Administrators, Bankers and Opinion Leaders from the Public or Private Sectors
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1921
	Death Date:	February 7, 2006

2017	Name:	Zay Jeffries
	Year Elected:	1948
	Class:	1. Mathematical and Physical Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1888
	Death Date:	5/21/1965

2018	Name:	Dr. William P. Jencks
	Institution:	Brandeis University
	Year Elected:	1995
	Class:	2. Biological Sciences
	Subdivision:	201. Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1927
	Death Date:	January 3, 2007

2019	Name:	Dr. Christopher Jencks
	Institution:	Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
	Year Elected:	2004
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Subdivision:	301. Anthropology, Demography, Psychology, and Sociology
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1936

	For decades, Christopher Jencks has studied such controversial subjects as economic inequality, race, education and social mobility, and homelessness. His work is meticulously researched, methodologically ingenious, relentlessly logical, and consistently dispassionate. One of the world's most eminent social scientists engaged in policy research, he is perceptive in identifying the causes of social problems and adept in connecting evidence and policy choices. Recently, he has dealt with "paradoxes of welfare reform," the intractability of the black-white test score gap, the contributions of conservative and liberal policies to homelessness and why the United States generates so many low wage jobs. Whatever one's political predispositions, his studies are always illuminating and persuasive. Currently the Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, Jencks has also taught at Northwestern University (1980-96), and from 1961-63 he served as associate editor of The New Republic. His published works include Inequality (1972); Who Gets Ahead? (1979); Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty and the Underclass (1992); The Homeless (1994); and (with M. Phillips) The Black White Test Score Gap (1998). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1997).

2020	Name:	Charles F. Jenkins
	Year Elected:	1944
	Class:	3. Social Sciences
	Residency:	Resident
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1866
	Death Date:	7/2/1951

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